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Affordable Care Act
Obama Signs SGR Repeal Legislation; Value-Based Payment Model Comes Into…
On Thursday, April 16, President Obama signed into law the legislation ending and replacing the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR)…
OIG Issues 2015 Health Reform Oversight Plan
HHS-OIG recently released their 2015 Health Reform Oversight Plan. The agency plans to hone in on the Affordable Care Act during…
21st Century Cures Initiative Introduces Significant Legislative Proposal
In April 2014, Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) partnered with Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) to launch the…
Affordable Care Act: Several States Reconsidering State Exchanges – Big…
Even as two Federal Appeals courts spilt on the issue of tax credits for purchasers of exchanges run by the federal…
Accountable Care Organizations: Patients Look Elsewhere for Specialty Care
A study recently published in JAMA Internal Medicine found the majority of beneficiaries assigned to an accountable care…
HHS Releases New ACA Figures: 8 Million Individuals Enrolled During the…
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released updated Affordable Care Act (ACA) enrollment data which found that over…
SGR Fix The Final Deal?
On Thursday, February 6th, a bipartisan group of congressional lawmakers announced they had reached a deal on legislation to…
AMA Urges Court to Uphold Injunction Barring Medicare Advantage…
The American Medical Association (AMA) strongly opposes United HealthCare's (United) plan to drop Medicare Advantage providers.…
Medicare Program; Contract Year 2015 Policy and Technical Changes to the…
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) pre-released a proposed rule that will require all prescribers of Part D…
Policy and Medicine: Current Healthcare Landscape and Predictions for 2014
We see 2014 as a year of change for the healthcare market. Forces such as the newly implemented health exchanges, the beginning of…